How to Easily Share Sources Between Ancestry and FamilySearch

I recently discovered a super easy way to share sources between Ancestry and FamilySearch.

However, this feature is only available for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have subscribed to Ancestry using their LDS account.

Before you can share sources, you will need to connect your ancestor in Ancestry to your ancestor in FamilySearch. To do that, while you're on an ancestor's person page in Ancestry.com, click on the FamilySearch icon next to the "Search" button. Sign into FamilySearch if needed, click on the FamilySearch icon again, match your ancestor in the list provided, and then click on "Connect Person."

Now, I'll show you how to easily share sources between Ancestry and FamilySearch.

Click on the FamilySearch icon next to the "Search" button.

Click on "Compare person on FamilySearch" in the drop down menu.

You may see the following prompt to sign into FamilySearch. If so, click "Sign In."

Enter your FamilySearch username and password and click on the "Sign In" button.

Choose the matching person in your FamilySearch Family Tree.

You will then see a side-by-side comparison of the person on FamilySearch and Ancestry. If you are satisfied that they are the same person, click the "Connect Person" button.

You will then see a page that looks similar to this.

Scroll down to the Sources section. As you can see, there is a source attached in Raymunda's person page in FamilySearch (left column) that isn't in Raymunda's person page in Ancestry (right column). And there are three sources attached to her Ancestry person page that aren't in her FamilySearch person page.

To share the FamilySearch source to Ancestry, just click on the gray box next to the source.

And it will automatically appear in the Ancestry column.

Click on the gray boxes next to the sources in the Ancestry column to share them to FamilySearch.

Voila! Now both FamilySearch and Ancestry columns have the same sources for Raymunda.

Press the "Save Changes" button and you're done.

Here's a screenshot showing the FamilySearch source now listed on Raymunda's person page in Ancestry.

You will also see the shared sources from Ancestry to FamilySearch when you go to your ancestor's person page in FamilySearch. If that page is already open, and you don't see the changes, refresh the page and they should appear.

There you go! Pretty easy right?

Thanks for reading!

Jana

 

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The RootsTech 2016 Mobile App is Available For Download

Great news fellow RootsTech 2016 attendees! The RootsTech 2016 conference app is now available for download in both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Here are links to the RootsTech 2016 conference app.

RootsTech 2016 Mobile App in Google Play Store

RootsTech 2016 Mobile App in Apple App Store

I'm an Android user, so I downloaded the app from the Google Play Store. Wow! One of my tweets is right there in the Twitter screenshot for the app in the Google Play Store. How fun is that?!

Clicking on the arrow at the right of the individual screenshots enables you to scroll through and see a closeup view of each screenshot. Here's a close-up view of the Twitter screenshot.

I am really looking forward to attending RootsTech 2016. It will be great to have my RootsTech conference schedule and other information easily accessible by using this app.

Thanks for reading!

Jana

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Follow Friday ~ Fab Finds for November 6, 2015

My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)

1. Now I Understand by Nancy Messier, author of My Ancestors and Me
2. Gen Do-Over: Do You Have a Genealogical Will? by Marian Burk Wood, author of Climbing My Family Tree
3. All Aboard! Railroad Retirement Board Records by Debbie Mieszala, author of The Advancing Genealogist
4. Old Letters: Preserving a Rare Genealogical Record Source by Melissa Barker, author of A Genealogist In The Archives
5. BE PREPARED IN GENEALOGY – PART 1 – INTRODUCTION AND GENEALOGICAL PREPAREDNESS – PART 2 – TIME WITH A PROFESSIONAL by Cari Taplin, author of Genealogy Pants
6. Able Seaman Alfred Henry LAST J/18054 died 31st May 1916 aged 19 AND A long shot, but could you have a connection to any of these old photographs? by Simon Last, author of Charnwood Genealogy
7. Get Your Ducks in a Row – Time May Be Shorter Than You Think AND Ancestry’s New “Amount of Shared DNA” – What Does It Really Mean? by Roberta Estes, author of DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
8. New Family ChartMasters Website by Janet Hovorka, author of The Chart Chick
9. 8 Tips to Giving a Great Genealogy Lecture by Amie Bowser Tennant for RootsBid Blog
10. First Look at New Search Connect Feature on MyHeritage by Randy Seaver, author of Genea-Musings
11. Place Your Ancestor in History by Emily Kowalski Schroeder, author of Growing Little Leaves
12. Library & Archives Canada New Immigration Database! by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, author of The Olive Tree Genealogy
13. Tuesday’s Child’s Family Heirlooms: My Dad’s Photography by Cathy Meder-Dempsey, author of Opening Doors in Brick Walls
14. 5 Photos You Should Take at the Cemetery AND The Question You Need to Ask When You’re Stuck on Your Genealogy by Amy Johnson Crow, author of Amy Johnson Crow Blog
15. Start Saving Those Family Photos & Stories–Now–One at a Time! by Thomas Jay Kemp for FamilySearch Blog
16. About Me: Getting interested in my family's history by Becky Jamison, author of Grace and Glory
17. This Age At Death ALMOST fooled me! by Geoff Rasmussen for Legacy News Blog

RootsTech 2016 Related Posts

• Get a 3-Day Pass to RootsTech 2016 for Free! by Eowyn for WikiTree Blog
• RootsTech Update and Contest Winner by Lara Diamond, author of Lara's Family Search
• RootsTech 2016 Free Pass Contest by Ancestry Insider, author of The Ancestry Insider
• RootsTech 2016 is just a Comment Away by Jennifer Alford for The Independent Genealogist

This week's "May I Introduce To You" Interview on GeneaBloggers.com

• May I Introduce to You . . . Eileen Souza

New Blog Discoveries

• Genealogy Bug
• Ancestry finds
• Eight Roads to Montana
• Frayed Edge Photo
• Letters to and from the Keith and Related Families
• My Danish Ancestors

In Case You Missed Them….My Contributions to the Blogosphere Last Week

Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog

• An Exciting Discovery ~ The Death Record for Raymunda Villatoro Vasques
• I Found Little Israel Villatoro

Thanks for reading!

Jana

© 2015 Copyright by Jana Last, All Rights Reserved

I Found Little Israel Villatoro

Thanks to Ancestry.com's newly added and indexed records for Mexico, I've been finding records that I haven't found before.

Today, I found a person I didn't know about before. His name is Israel Villatoro. He is my 1st cousin 3 times removed and is the son of my maternal 2nd great-granduncle, Zenon Villatoro Vasques. Zenon is a brother of my 2nd great-grandmother Raymunda Villatoro Vasques. I shared her death record in a previous post.

The record I found for Israel is his death record.¹

Israel passed away on 8 August 1904 due to Dysentery. He was only seven months old. Poor little baby! I discovered from this record that his mother, Adelfa Hernandez, had passed away before Israel. And Israel's father, Zenon, was listed as a widower.

From what I can tell using Google Translate, the highlighted areas of this record basically say that on 9 August 1904 Zenon Villatoro, 26 years of age, widower, reported Israel's death. Israel passed away at 4:00 in the afternoon of 8 August 1904. I figured that out using Google Translate. "Fallecio ayer" means "died yesterday." It's important to read through the record to see when the actual death occurred. The last highlighted area reads "la finada Adelfa Hernandez" which means "the deceased Adelfa Hernandez."

I've now added little Israel Villatoro to my Legacy database as well as my Ancestry tree and FamilySearch Family Tree.

I've found other documents regarding my Mexican family lines and will share those in future posts.

Thanks for reading!

Jana

 

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1 "Chiapas, Mexico, Civil Registration Deaths, 1861-1987,"database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 November 2015), Page 1, image 413 of 1158, entry for Israel Villatoro (Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico), 8 August 1904; citing Chiapas Civil Registry State Archives, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, Academia Mexicana de Genealogia y Heraldica.^↩

An Exciting Discovery ~ The Death Record for Raymunda Villatoro Vasques

I have an exciting discovery to share with you today. Last Friday, I was searching on Ancestry.com and found the death record for my maternal 2nd great-grandmother, Raymunda Villatoro Vasques.¹ I didn't have any information about Raymunda's death before.

I knew that Raymunda passed away before 7 March 1925. Why? Because her son Francisco was married to Emma Vera on 7 March 1925 and their marriage record stated that Francisco's parents were deceased. But, I didn't know when or where Raymunda passed away or her cause of death.

This is a copy of Raymunda's death record. It begins on the bottom of the left page and continues to the top of the right page. Her record is highlighted in the red boxes.

I decided to crop Raymunda's death record and highlight in yellow some of the information contained in the record.

Unfortunately, the edges of these pages are in bad shape which makes it difficult to see all of the words in the record. But, I'm thankful that Raymunda's death record is mostly readable.

I don't read or speak Spanish so I turned to Google Translate for help with this document. I also asked my son-in-law, who served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico City, Mexico, for help. It was a quick translation help session and we didn't get everything in the document translated. However, I think I can understand it enough to glean the most important information from it.

Basically, here's what this record tells me:

Francisco M. Villatoro, 23 years of age, and single, reported his mother's death. Francisco is one of Raymunda's children. He and my great-grandmother, Esther Matus Villatoro, were siblings. Raymunda Villatoro, 60 years of age, passed away in her home in Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico at 2:00 on 8 October 1923. Her cause of death was "Hidropecia." I used Google Translate to see what Hidropecia means and found that it is Dropsy. Raymunda's parents were listed as Demetrio Villatoro and Ysabel Vasquez.

So now I have this additional information about my 2nd great-grandmother, Raymunda Villatoro Vasques. I don't yet have her birth or marriage records, so I can't say exactly when or where she was born or married. But, I'm grateful to have her death record. It really is an exciting find.

I found other exciting, and even surprising, discoveries this last weekend. I'll share those in future posts.

Thanks for reading!

Jana

 
 © 2015 Copyright by Jana Last, All Rights Reserved

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1 "Chiapas, Mexico, Civil Registration Deaths, 1861-1987," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 October 2015), image 151 of 2067, entry for Raymunda Villatoro (Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico), November 1923; citing Chiapas Civil Registry State Archives, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, Academia Mexicana de Genealogia y Heraldica .  ^↩